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Speaker 1: Love Hello, my friends, Welcome, Welcome to June. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Summer twenty twenty six. Welcome to the season of sunburns

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Speaker 1: and popsicles and outdoor concerts and nine PM sunsets I

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Speaker 1: Love Summer Concert Series. Welcome to another episode of Love

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Speaker 1: Someone with Delilah and my very very special guest, an

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Speaker 1: old friend coming back to visit today, Josh Grobin. Mister

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Speaker 1: Josh Grobin is Tony Emmy and Grammy nominated, five time

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Speaker 1: Grammy nominated. He's a singer, songwriter, actor, and my favorite part.

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Speaker 1: He's a philanthropist who loves kids, who believes in kids,

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Speaker 1: and believes in keeping the arts alive for our kids.

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Speaker 1: Josh Grobin possesses one of the most outstanding, beauty full

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Speaker 1: iconic voices recognizable in music. Josh is now forty five

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Speaker 1: forty five, which is hard to believe because I met him.

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Speaker 1: I met him when he was still a teenager. He

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Speaker 1: was traveling with his parents. They were keeping a watchful

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Speaker 1: ion young Josh back then. We've both grown up. Since then,

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Speaker 1: my show has become syndicated across the country, and he's

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Speaker 1: now sold over thirty five million copies of his albums worldwide.

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Speaker 1: He's headlined in legendary venues on multiple continents around the world.

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Speaker 1: He has made numerous television and film appearances, and.

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Speaker 2: He's a Broadway star, a big Broadway star.

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Speaker 1: His catalog spans a series of chart topping blockbuster albums,

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Speaker 1: and his tours have packed arenas throughout the world. He's

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Speaker 1: had three number one albums on the Billboard Top two hundred,

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Speaker 1: Closer Noelle, and All That Echoes. His brand new releases

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Speaker 1: called Cinematic, it came out on May eighth, could be

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Speaker 1: another contender for that honor. It's a ten track collection

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Speaker 1: of iconic silver screen classics and movie themes, including songs

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Speaker 1: like My Favorite on the album, Skyfall, can You Feel

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Speaker 1: the Love Tonight from The Lion Kings stand By Me.

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Speaker 1: Stand By Me was just released as a radio single

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Speaker 1: the day the album came out, and it's already getting airplay.

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Speaker 1: Josh has great acting chops too. He made his Broadway

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Speaker 1: debut in twenty sixteen with a starring role in a

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Speaker 1: which gave him his first Tony Award nomination for Best

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Speaker 1: up with Josh in person was backstone after a spectacular

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Speaker 1: Broadway performance in his title role. He was the star

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Speaker 1: a Tony and a Grammy nomination. He was brilliant, brutal, brutal,

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Speaker 1: but brilliant. Is it any surprise, then, that he recently

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Speaker 1: received his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Speaker 1: The honor was bestowed May sixth in the category of Recording,

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Speaker 1: just two days before Cinematic was released. I cannot wait

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Speaker 1: to welcome my dear friend Josh Grobin back to love

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Speaker 1: someone and get all the deeds on his busy, busy

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Speaker 2: Hello, darling, Oh are you my friend? To see you?

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Speaker 2: Good to see you. You look great, so do you.

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Speaker 2: It's so great to see you. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I was just recording the intro and talking about, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you were a teenager when we met.

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Speaker 2: I know. Oh my goodness, I remember. That's right. It

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Speaker 2: was that when I was I flew to Seattle to

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Speaker 1: Amazing, because the music man called me and said, you

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Speaker 1: got to hear this kid. You got to hear this kid.

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Speaker 1: He's like nobody you've ever heard before.

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Speaker 2: Which was categorically untrue, but very kind of him. Oh,

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Speaker 2: it was very true. I've never heard anyone.

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Speaker 1: I have interviewed thousands of recording arts.

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Speaker 2: You've you've interviewed them all. Truly, I'm I'm blessed to

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Speaker 1: On your Your voice, Josh, is so unique. Like when

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Speaker 1: And at the time you were, you looked even younger

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Speaker 2: You know, you were so baby face for sure, me.

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Speaker 1: I I thank you telling people I got to last

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Speaker 2: I think that's that was the kind of the fun

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Speaker 1: Napping, Yes, the chair that you push the button and

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Speaker 2: They let me keep it. They let me keep it.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, six hundred pounds. I flew this thing

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Speaker 1: And now, because you love movies so much, you've just

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Speaker 1: released Cinematic Beautiful, Be Beautiful. It makes me want to

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, these songs for me, theater and songs from

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Speaker 1: Well, the ones I've listened to, I've heard five of them.

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Speaker 1: So beautiful, and I love the original Skyfall, but your

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful. Thank you. We did that in Vegas at

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Speaker 2: Skyfall would be a great ender to this show, and

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Speaker 2: a guy, come see me in October. We're going to

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Speaker 2: You can absolutely come out to Vegas and and and

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Speaker 2: I'll show you all our little magic secrets, because you've

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Speaker 2: It's just a it's a must.

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Speaker 1: So you are going to be in Vegas for just

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Speaker 2: You know? How Paul proposed to me?

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Speaker 2: I also like that you both kind of balance each

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Brow and do so many phenomenal things.

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Speaker 2: their names Miss Jimths, Miss Jimmieth. If you had a

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Speaker 2: teacher or teachers like Miss chim have, find a way

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Speaker 2: to reach out to them and thank them because they

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Speaker 2: are they are turning a light bulb on every single

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Speaker 2: day of their lives. They are heroic and and and

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Speaker 2: then kids, you know, they get to reap the benefit

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Speaker 2: of that. Those kids get to go on in life

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Speaker 2: and feel like they were seen for the first time

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Speaker 2: sometimes in their lives. And I say go back and

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Speaker 2: thank those teachers. I invite those teachers that did that

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Speaker 2: for me to every concert I ever do in LA

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Speaker 2: and it's it's an amazing thing. We need to really

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Speaker 2: support those educators in arts and otherwise that really see

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Speaker 2: through the kid and find the potential when they're not

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Speaker 2: seeing it in themselves.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love that you shine a spotlight on the

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Speaker 1: on the art and on the teachers and on the

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Speaker 1: kids that are struggling to find their place in this world. Yes, indeed,

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Speaker 1: so the album's out. You got your walk on the

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Speaker 1: Walk of Fame? Was Ellen there to the mand.

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Speaker 2: Was was there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: She was the host. She was the host of the

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Speaker 2: evening the day afternoon, so sweet, so great, and she

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Speaker 2: set the tone in such a beautiful way and and uh.

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Speaker 2: And then I had mister music man, David Foster was there,

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Speaker 2: said a few words and uh. And then he was.

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Speaker 1: The one that called me when you were a kid,

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Speaker 1: I know. And he's like, Delia, you've got to hear

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Speaker 1: this kid.

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Speaker 2: You've got I looked at him from the podium and

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Speaker 2: I said, just like, how stunned are we both that

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Speaker 2: this is we're standing here right now in front of

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Speaker 2: the star I was. There was very little expectation that

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Speaker 2: my voice, my first album, would find an audience. We

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Speaker 2: did not have any of the super highway we had

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Speaker 2: thankfully because of support like yours. We found our people,

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Speaker 2: you know, and we were able to connect with with

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Speaker 2: hearts and minds all over the country. But but when

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Speaker 2: we first started recording that first song, we didn't know

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Speaker 2: that it would go anywhere. So I looked at him,

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, this is this is a big,

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Speaker 2: big deal, and.

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Speaker 1: And David new, well he might not have known how big,

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Speaker 1: but he has this gift of intuition and recognizing genius

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Speaker 1: like nobody else in the business. And he recognized your

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Speaker 1: genius instantly and told me, told me that.

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Speaker 2: This very and and you're not you know, back then that.

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Speaker 1: Was you know, everybody was being so overproduced and overhyped

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Speaker 1: and over and He's like, no, no, this kid is

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Speaker 1: just raw talent.

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Speaker 2: That's scary though, you know. I mean, I mean, look

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Speaker 2: at I meet. I meet raw talent every single day

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Speaker 2: I meet, I meet voices that I say to myself,

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Speaker 2: you should be bigger than me, like I And you know,

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Speaker 2: having the talent is is a very important one part

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Speaker 2: of it, and there's so many other stars have to

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Speaker 2: align for that to become world known. And so I

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Speaker 2: think that while I agree that he heard something in

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Speaker 2: me and I was appreciative of that and wanted to

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Speaker 2: work as hard as I could to hone that and

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Speaker 2: to get better, I also knew reality. My parents knew reality.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is around us knew that this business is not,

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Speaker 2: you know, a walk in the park, and it's chock

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Speaker 2: full of disappointments at every turn, and the chances of

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Speaker 2: a discovery of talent turning into that discovery being millions

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Speaker 2: of people to that talent, even with the best people around.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five million albums. Last time I checked yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it boggles my mind to this day, and I

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Speaker 2: am so grateful for the journey that I've had, you know,

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Speaker 2: and grateful for the fans tattooed or otherwise for allowing

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Speaker 2: me to have a path that didn't rely on any

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Speaker 2: particular trend. I think that's one of the main reasons

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Speaker 2: why I've been able to hang on for as long

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Speaker 2: as i have, is that I haven't had to chase anything.

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Speaker 2: And when you've got a fan base that just wants

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Speaker 2: you to be you, then it can be feel lonely

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Speaker 2: at times because you're not part of a club. But

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Speaker 2: but ultimately it's it's the greatest freedom in the world.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, indeed, amen to that. I will never ever be

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Speaker 1: a trend chaser, just.

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Speaker 2: And and because of that, you know, you gave me

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Speaker 2: a platform to share my voice with the world when

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Speaker 2: no one else was, and you know you were. You

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Speaker 2: also have that eear and for you to say, hey,

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Speaker 2: this is a voice that I want to support and

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Speaker 2: I think I think that people would like to hear this.

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Speaker 2: That's everything to me. I'm am forever grateful to you, truly,

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Speaker 2: because you've you've really been such a support for twenty

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Speaker 2: five years. You've been such a support and so and

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Speaker 2: so I'm I'm very grateful for you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: So where are you going to be this summer. You've

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Speaker 1: got a small tour, not a huge tour.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, small tour in big places. Jennifer Hudson and I

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Speaker 2: have found a window of opportunity that is lightning the

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Speaker 2: bottle luck for both of us. We are so amazing voices. Honestly.

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Speaker 2: We sang together on a CBS Christmas special called Home

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Speaker 2: for the Holidays a couple of years ago that I

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Speaker 2: was hosting, and we sang a Holy Night together, which

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Speaker 2: is a big voice song. We come from very different

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Speaker 2: kind of vocal backgrounds, but emotion is emotion and bignesses

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Speaker 2: can blend really well. And we're singing that Noel at

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Speaker 2: the end of that song, and we're looking at each

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Speaker 2: other and we hugged each other backstage and said, one

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Speaker 2: day we have to do this again. We have to record,

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Speaker 2: we have to tour something. And you know, a couple

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Speaker 2: of years later, to have unchained melody as our duet

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Speaker 2: on this album and to be able to sing a

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Speaker 2: song we love so much and to be able to

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Speaker 2: do it every night together, and to be able to

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Speaker 2: blend forces and play some of the greatest venues across

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Speaker 2: the country. We're not going to be able to do

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Speaker 2: this ever again together probably, and so I mean never

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Speaker 2: say never, but this is a rare opportunity for us,

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Speaker 2: so with our schedules. So yeah, we're excited. We're so

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Speaker 2: excited to Jay Hudden Jigrow hitting the road.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how can people find out if they're going to

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Speaker 1: be in a way they can come see you.

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Speaker 2: They can go to Josh grobin dot com slash tour

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Speaker 2: and they can check it out and get tickets, and

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00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: they can also go to Jennifer Hudson's website or they

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Speaker 2: can go to a ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, I love you, thanks for spending time with us. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: go get cinematic because it'll make you want to watch

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Speaker 1: a movie on a big screen. It's that good.

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Speaker 2: I love you, Josh, Thank you. I love you, Delilah.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: My friend Josh Grobin, who came to Earth with the

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Speaker 1: voice of an angel and has shared it with the

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Speaker 1: world ever since he was barely old enough to climb

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Speaker 1: the stairs to a performing stage, just completed his Gems

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Speaker 1: World tour and he's already back on the Road Now

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Speaker 1: with the North of America Tour special guest Jennifer Hudson.

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Speaker 1: The tour kicked off in Laval, Canada, and will cover

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Speaker 1: sixteen cities including Boston, Philly, Nashville, Tampa, Detroit, and Denver,

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Speaker 1: amongst others, wrapping up July third in Salt Lake City.

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Speaker 1: In October, he will return to the Coliseum at Caesar's

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Speaker 1: Palace for a limited five performances Josh Grobin Jim's Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas residency.

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Speaker 2: I plan on being there.

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Speaker 1: Josh remains an active arts education, philanthropist and advocate, and

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Speaker 1: his Find Your Light Foundation helps enrich the lives of

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Speaker 1: young people through arts education and cultural awareness. His latest album, Cinematic,

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00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: is a ten track classic silver screen and movie themes album.

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Speaker 1: It was released in early May and is available everywhere

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Speaker 1: as a digital download, on CD and for lovers of

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Speaker 1: old school music.

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Speaker 2: You can get the viol too.

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Speaker 1: Stay up to date and informed on all things Josh

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Speaker 1: Grobin at Joshgroobin dot com. You'll find everything there, including

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Speaker 1: music videos, his tour schedule, news. You can even join

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Speaker 1: his fan club. Don't know if you want to get

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Speaker 1: a tattoo like that one fan did, but who knows.

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Speaker 1: Josh is also on all major social media channels. You

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Speaker 1: won't have any trouble tracking him down. I find him

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Speaker 1: all the time on TikTok. We chat on TikTok, we

591
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: post things on each other's page. Make sure you check

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Speaker 1: out his tour schedule. He's on the tour right now,

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Speaker 1: performing right now. So check that out and if possible,

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Speaker 1: get to one of his performances. You will go away

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Speaker 1: changed and only the way that music can magically change

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Speaker 1: your soul. June is now fully underway. Kids across the

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Speaker 1: nation are getting their first taste of summer vacation, or

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Speaker 1: they can almost taste it. Mine get out tomorrow. It's

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Speaker 1: so close. Soon we'll all start complaining about the heat,

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Speaker 1: the humanity, the mosquitoes, the noise.

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Speaker 2: But for now, go sing

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Speaker 1: In the sunshine, go laugh every day, and don't forget

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Speaker 1: to slow down and love someone